House joint resolution · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 11, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 121.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. SCANLON, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 149, September 11, 2025, Page H4266):Section 8 of Article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.J.Res. 121, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hjres/121
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 22, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 22, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
46 cosponsors — 46 Democrats
0 of 46 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Becca Balint (D-VT), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Ed Case (D-HI), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Bill Foster (D-IL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), John Garamendi (D-CA), Jared Golden (D-ME), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Greg Landsman (D-OH), John Larson (D-CT), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), John Mannion (D-NY), Kelly Morrison (D-MN), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and 16 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.
- H.R. 1269 (119th) Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- H.Res. 160 (119th) Recognizing January 2025 as "National Mentoring Month".
- H.Res. 1047 (119th) Recognizing January 2026 as "National Mentoring Month".
- H.R. 4769 (119th) Foster Youth Mentoring Act of 2025
- H.R. 535 (119th) Inaugural Fund Integrity Act
- H.R. 7920 (119th) Take Back Our Hospitals Act of 2026
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.